 One way to illustrate these inequalities is to look at how long different generations took to achieve a level of consumption of $30,000 per year (2009-10 Australian dollars).At one extreme, people born in 1935 achieved this level of consumption when they were roughly 50 years of age, on average.At the other extreme, Millennials born in 1995 had achieved this level of consumption by the time they were around 10 years of age.